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UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

EDWVARD A. WHITING, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JEREMIAH TOBIN, OF SAME PLACE.

LAUNDRY-BENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 494,092, dated March 21, 1893.

Application filed December 10 1892. Serial No. 454,741. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. WRITING, of Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Benches, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of benches and particularly to that class which are adapted to be used for holding wash-tubs, while in use.

My object is to produce such a bench which may be adapted to hold one or more tubs, and folded together so as to occupy a small amount of space, when in use.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described and which are specifically set forth in the claim hereunto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a view of the bench, complete, extended, ready for use, showing places for holding two tubs. Fig. 2, isa side view thereof, showing one of the tub-holding arms folded, and the other extended. Fig. 3, is a view of the bench, folded.

AA, are the diagonal frame bars which constitute the support of the bench, journaled at their upper ends to the vertical bars l3.

0-, is a cross bar mortised in the upper end of said vertical bars and extending beyond the faces thereof.

The bars -A,- are cut diagonally upon It will be observed that either tub arm may 5 be extended at will, and that the whole bench may be folded and stored away when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A bench comprising vertical bars -B, a cross bar mortised in their upper ends and extending beyond their faces, bars A- journaled to said vertical bars and having their upper inner diagonal faces adapted to bear against the extended ends of the cross bar, arms D- journaled to the diagonal bars and having the inner ends adapted to abut against the lower ends of the vertical bars.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of December, 1892.

EDWARD A. WI-IITING.

In presence of J. H. JENNINGS, JEREMIAH ToBIN. 

